Synthesis and Analysis Methods for Safety and Reliability Studies

Section 1 - Binary Systems -- by the Editors -- Fault Tree Analysis by List-Processing Techniques -- PATREC, a Computer Code for Fault-Tree Calculation -- Repairable Multiphase Systems: Markov and Fault-Tree Approaches for Reliability Evaluation -- Reliability Parameters for Chemical Process Systems -- About the Definition of Coherency in Binary System Reliability Analysis -- Regeneration Diagrams -- Uncertainty Propagation in Fault-Tree Analysis -- Section 2 - Multistate Systems. Logic Diagrams -- by the Editors -- The CAT Methodology for Fault-Tree Construction -- L.A.M. Technique: Systematic Generation of Logical Structures in System Reliability Studies -- Multivalued Logic in the Representation of Engineering Systems -- Fault-Tree Analysis with Multistate Components -- Section 3 - Multistate Systems. Other Methods -- by the Editors -- Reliability Analysis of a Repairable Single Unit under General Age Dependence -- Use of Markov Processes for Reliability Problems -- Some Consideration on the Markov Approach to Reliability -- How to Use the Minimal Cuts of Fault Tree Analysis in Markov Modelling -- Response Surface Methodology in Risk Analysis -- Optimization Problems in System Supervision -- Calculation of Downtimes Resulting from Parallel Subsystem Repair -- Section 4 - Man-System Interactions -- by the Editors -- Notes on Human Error Analysis and Prediction -- Improving System Reliability by the Elimination of a Class of Design Errors -- LNG Operations Risk Analyses: Evaluation and Comparison of Techniques and Results -- Real Time Analysis of Process Plant Alarms -- Material Control Study: A Directed Graph and Fault-Tree Procedure for Adversary Event Set Generation -- The Availability of a Computer System Communications Network as Perceived by a User and Viewed Centrally -- Organizing Committee and List of Participants.